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Presencia Taina.TV is televised weekly throughout the
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Otsiningo is the 18th Century name of the lower
Chenango River Valley in upstate New York referred to as “The
Southern Door” of the Iroquois Longhouse occupied by the people
of many nation as including the Ononondegas, the Nanticokes, the Conoys,
the Shawnees, the Mohicans, the Oneidas, and the Tuscaroras.

The Otsiningo Program and its Pow wow is an educational
program of the Iroquois Studies Association seeking to share Indian
cultures and issues through workshops, festivals, lectures, demonstrations
and Pow Wows. Join the Caciba Jagua Taino Cultural Association in their
featured Musical Dance Presentation at this 22nd Anniversary Festival

Join our visit to the Yale University collection of
Caribbean artifacts and archeological studies with research pioneer
Dr. Irving Rouse. Sit in on this truly remarkable synopsis of Caribbean
scholarship captured on video by Roger Hernandez Jr. Dr. Irving Rouse
is captured on video for the very first time offering his research determinations
utilizing demonstrative rare artifacts and utilitarian objects uncovered
by his extensive 70 year studies.

Author of many educational accounts spanning more than
2,500 years of acheological remants and remains
of the material cultural of the Taino Indians, Dr. Rouse takes us on
his journey of historical importance- helping to correct misconceptions
on the demise of the Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean. This production
is available in two VHS video fashions - (a.) formatted as a complete
one hour (60 minute) video, or (b.) as a four part series (30 minutes
each).

Interviews, music and a lively discussion
compliments these images which maintains an oral tradition to the
identity of the Native Peoples of Boriken (Puerto Rico). Broken into
sub sections of Elders, Maps, Early Images, Areito, The Land, The
Sea, and The People - this video exhibition captures the imagery of
the contemporary Indigenous legacy of the Caribbean.

Fresh from the highlands of
Ecuador, deep within the jungles bordering conflicting frontiers -
Amazonian spokesman Mr. Juan Gualinga shares his spiritual journey
as a shaman of the Anaconda Clan into New York City to deliver his
message before the United Nations Conference on Spiritual and Religious
Intolerance.

Hosted by Roberto Mucaro Borrero,
this 28 minute, bilingual (English subtitles), VHS presentation offers
a glimpse of impacting realities and conflicting choices between highly
technological driven societies and the unknown Indigenous communities
that are being rape to fuel increasing development.

Billy Mills has overcome
ethnic and cultural bias as the 1964 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist
10,000 meter runner winner. Hear his life story as he continues
to battle racial discrimination against American Indians in this
AMNH sponsored lecture- Indigenous People’s Images in Sports
and Media presented on May 12, 2002.

Caciba Jagua is a traditional
Taino indian performance troupe featuring music of the Indigenous
people of the Caribbean. Named after a Caribbean creation story told
in the oral tradition - Caciba Jagua emerges into the light to offer
educational entertainment about Native American cultural heritage
of the islands of the Caribbean.

See and hear the members of
the musical (song and dance in the Taino - Arawak language) troupe
as they share their talents and the hand crafted traditional instruments
and adornments. Lead by musical Director and Founder- Roberto Mucaro
Borrero, this 30 minute audio visual VHS production captures a lively
spiritual performance before a vast and astonished audience celebrating
the Indigenous legacy of the Taino Indans.

Fascinating 55 minute Spanish
video documentary (by Ivan Nieves) filmed in Boriquen (Puerto Rico)
featuring original compositions and the music of Ms. Elba Lugo performed
by Paseo Taino. This video explores the sacred ceremonial indigenous
parks (bateys) of Puerto Rico and their mythological astronomical
alignment significance. Join Idalia Perez Garay y Ricardo Fabregues
as they narrate Taino batey activities centered on religion, politics,
economics and sports. This interesting video introduces Puerto Rican
archeologists and socio-ethnologists who are researching the correlations
between the Meso-American temples of the New World. Filled with
plenty of illustrations, data, maps, photographs, film and published
research - this video is available exclusively thru Producciones
Oasis.

Join the excitement of the
formulative years of the United Confederation of Taino People at La
Casa de la Herencia (NYC), as we celebrate the Taino movements finest
women. Pioneering the musical spiritual rebirth of the indigenous
legacies of the Antillas, this 30 minute special highlights the creative
genius' of Boriqua activist Ms. Elba Anaca Lugo, and others.

Join A. Michael Auld with his
lecturer at the American Museum of Natural History for this 52 minute
slide show presentation on the history
of the Caribbean Pearl Trade during the early conquest period.
Pearls were the most highly valued treasure that spurned the lust
for explorations, adventure and riches. Unfortunately- greed, jealousy
and murder on an unprecedented scale ensued against the indigenous
populations of the bountiful coasts of South, Central and Caribbean
America.

From media exploitation
and religious intolerance to the use of images of native peoples as
mascots and corporate logos- indigenous peoples have had little or
no redress against the misappropriation of their images.

Listen to multi media
artist and activist Charlene Teters as she offers her presentation
as a convergence of her activism and her art to give a contemporary
perspective on Native American representation.

"Join the Staten
Islands LIONS Athletic Sports Club in the 2005 Year of The
Rooster Chinatown celebration in New York City! Lion dancing, drumming
and
parade close ups of the 2005 Chinese New Year filmed by Roger Hernandez
Jr."

Join us on a beautiful day in the
South Bronx as we celebrate Native Wisdom with Native American Church
Roadman Manuel Khuatlhi and the volunteers of Brook Park. Located
on East 141th Street and on the site of an actual ancient Brook, this
park has been rescued by the community residents who now plan educational
activities and environmental projects. Harry Bubbins has been coordinating
the volunteers, students, teachers and elders since 1999 and has helped
to secure the respect and support necessary to establish the Friends
of Brook Park.

Join artist Frank
Escalet (painter storyteller) depict his neighbors, and friends
by portraying the poignancy of their hopes and dreams and sorrows
with compassionate insight. Using line and color with disingenuous
simplicity, Frank recreates memories from his childhood experiences
in Spanish Harlem- NYC of the 1940’s and 50’s

Frank Craven's controversial
30-minute video (with footage from Roger Atihuibancex included!) won
the 2000 Worldfest Houston Local Service Award. This video puts you
in the middle of the NYC Justice Rally (December, 2000) demonstrating
for the release of political prisoner and Native American Human Rights
Activist Leonard
Peltier (jailed since 1975) from Federal Prison. LVPT Taino newsletter
covered this in the Vol. 2, Issue 5 (Dec., 99) issue. Contact the
LP Defense Committee at
LPDC@idir.net to offer support.

Exciting action, music, drumming
and testimonials by wide range of supporters and Police Enforcement
Rangers! Arresting footage was used by local Television News, and
presented at court as evidence to dismiss charges against rally participants
arrested during the rally for practicing their constitutional rights.

28 minute (English/ Spanish)
video of the African slaves of St. Vincents/ Grenaidines Caribbean
Islands who were forcibly removed and transported to the Central American
coast of Honduras in 1791 by the British colonists of the Lesser Antilles.
Listen to Professor Felix Miranda, and Pablo Gomez while enjoying
the Garifuna music and dance from the Maria Maximo Troupe during their
presentation at the 3 hour Falu Foundation Conference "Afro- Latinos:
Celebration of African Heritage in the Caribbean" held in NYC.

Presentation video shot at the American
Museum of Natural History (NYC), highlighting the students (ages 15-
20) of Hawaii's Alternative High School as they performed at museums
throughout the Northeast. Beutiful native dance Areito complimented
with tribal regalia brings the audience on a polynesian journey spanning
centuries of island dance.

This 30 minute video interview
produced in collaboration with Roger Atihuibancex Hernandez explores
the Taino diaspora to Hawaii during the last turn of the century.
This interview with Tony Castanha (hosted by UCTP President Roberto
Mucaro Borrero), discussı elements of Taino Survival and the Caribbean
Indigenous Cultural Living Legacy traced back through the social political
pressures of the colonial history of Puerto Rico, and the Diaspora
migration patterns that has introduced Tainos all over the world!
This tape is complimented by the additional 30 minute video companion
tape "Hawaii InterCaterae Bull Burning", highlighting the
nnual activity in Hawaii to protest the Papal Bulls of the Catholic
Church allowing for the unjust transition of the Churchıs colonization
of the New World... the Catholic Church allowing for the unjust transition
of the Church's colonization of the New World.

Listen
to Hawaii Boricua Tony Castanha as he leads the Indigenous people
of Hawaii in prayer and discussions. Calling for the revocation of
the Church's Papal Bull decrees from the conquest periods subjugating
the indiesnatural rights under Catholic dominion, this assembly performs
a burning of the religious laws that served as barbaric contracts
authored by the Vatican Popes against the Indigenous Peoples of the
Americas.

Musical 60 minute exploration
into the native instruments, and drums, along with ceremonial songs
of the Caribbean. Filmed at WPKN (Brideport, CT) Studios, this tape
hosted by radio personality Luis Polmaris also features listener
telephone comments and responses from the guest artists of Yucayeque
Maguey and Presencia Taina.

Acclaimed New Zealand
performance dance troupe KAHURANGI presents “People of The
Pacific”, an interactive program that features songs and
dances from the Pacific Islands including Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa,
and New Zealand.

Listen to the Indigenous Elders of the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota
Nations as they gather to share their inexhaustive Native American
teachings at this American Museum Of Natural History (AMNH) symposium
held in NYC. This 50 minute VHS video captures the AMNH Education
Department sponsored tribute "Old Ways and New Challenges" featuring
Dave Chief, and Dr. Arvol Looking Horse.

This wisdom keepers are complimented
by the introduction of the film - "Wisdom Keepers" produced by Ora
Abel - Russel (1999). This production was directed in recognition
of the Seventh Annual Commeration of the United Nations International
Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.